Will Sommer

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Hey everybody, it's Tim Miller from The Bulwark here with my colleagues, managing editor Sam Sine and Will Sommer, the man of the moment.

Everyone on tour was like, more Will, more Will, you know, from Charlotte to Atlanta.

You know, from Johnson City down to Raleigh, people were shouting, Will, Will.

J.D. Vance went further, ripping into Republicans for, quote unquote, whining about the ad.

My colleague Jonathan Last in his great newsletter, The Triad, had kind of talked about what a sociopath

advance is.

You know, the Haitian dogs and cats lie is still being felt here in Southwest Ohio where I live.

And it does kind of come across as fake.

Like he doesn't have the sincerity of twisting the knife, which is why he needs Trump and J.D. Vance, who are shameless and have no morals, to come and twist it for him because it really isn't working.

And I think that, you know, as my colleague Will Sommer has reported, you know, there's a lot in MAGA media world who are now having to kind of go along with this.

You know, this this is a command from the top that this is acceptable.

We've written about it in Morning Shots.

My colleague, Will Sommer, who's here with me, has been writing about it in his newsletter.

And we keep getting more and more stuff on it.

The President of the United States Donald Trump just weighed in on Truth Social about this ad.

He gave a fucking shout out to people who don't go to church, don't pray, aren't people of faith.

And that's like a super smart political move because people don't understand that while the non-religious aren't a majority here, depending on how you slice and dice religious affiliation, non-religious are... possibly the largest number of people or in the top three so it's always good to message at those people because you know there's a lot of us so in addition to that this week we had a lot of fucking really dumb missteps from the uh from the conservatives this week uh the one about james talarico was just some it was so dumb it was so dumb the talent like when this came out people like oh it's russian propaganda and i'm like the fuck it is the russians are good at this this is like this is some dumb american person did this what are you talking about but anyway here is um will summer longtime extremism reporter Will Sommer.

We got to know Will Sommer's work pretty intimately when we were covering Jacob Wall, who I just mentioned a minute ago.

But here he is on CNN talking about the Linder Center Hope, Linder Center for Hope, or Linder Center of Hope, James Tallarico.

I wouldn't call it a scandal so much as a blunder.

Here now is Will Sommer.

He's a senior reporter for The Bulwark who covers a lot of these issues wackos.

Will, this conspiracy unraveled pretty fast, but let's talk

It's like Gab or something like that, you know.

Since his streams were long and largely boring, he monetized them primarily through a complex content ecosystem that Will Sommer kind of describes this very well in an article for The Bulwark.

Aether Leaves Rise has been fueled by clipping accounts on social media, which take the hours of streaming he produces and repackage his most incendiary moments into shorter videos.

Right.

Like he does.

I'm sure.

But the fact that there's violence, right, and the fact that he might provoke violence by doing this is part of the point, right? Will Sommer in his article describes it as like a boomerang effect.

Etherly will say deliberately and do deliberately infuriating things to provoke a response, ideally from famous people online, right, which then draws more people to his content and more attention to his work.

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We're trade publication now.

In June, a release they put out said that neo clouds would capture 20% of a $260 billion AI cloud market by 2030, which isn't like directly contradicted, but it does say like neo clouds are gonna capture value by the same time that 80%, as this recent report says, will be, uh, merged or subsumed by the Mag 7.

I'll also point out that about a year ago, this time, this fall a year ago, um, Gardner analyst Will Sommer made a call that agentic AI supply would exceed demand, and this would cause a market correction.

Did this market correction already happen? Uh, we've certainly seen a lot of, uh, ups and downs, but like what we've actually seen, looking back at the wh- the year as a whole, is that, uh, demand has vastly exceeded supply right now.

Um, I think you could make an argument that how much of that demand is paid for, how much of that is like ac- accurately priced, not subsidized by the various ventures, by the various frontier labs, but, um, I do think-